'tab', a new command-line utility for processing tabular text files seriously

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711554
by otabdeveloper • 12 years ago
10 1 12 years ago

It's actually a statically-typed, type-inferred declarative non-Turing-complete language for querying tabular text files. (Such csv/tsv or webserver logs.)

It's designed to fill the niche between SQL and traditional UNIX utilities like cut/sort/uniq/awk.

The source and documentation is here: http://bitbucket.org/tkatchev/tab

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